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Global Missions Bibliography
Argentina
BEGINNINGS
1908  Buenos Aires General Synod - Board of Home Missions, General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States
(GS - ULCA - ELCA)
[1911] Buenos Aires Pan-Lutheran Missionary Society for Latin America
1919 Buenos Aires United Lutheran Church in America - Board of Foreign Missions (ULCA - LCA - ELCA)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Schmidt, Hermann. Deutsche Evangelische La Plata Synode 1899-1949. Buenos Aires: Deutsche Evangelische La Plata Synod, 1949.

German language.

Townsend, Virginia, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission, 1993.

Narrator: Virginia Townsend, ULCA/LCA missionary to Argentina, 1949-1967.

Wilke, Myrtle, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission, 1993.

Narrator: Myrtle Wilke, ULCA/LCA missionary to Argentina, 1927-1966.

 

 

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Alsop, Albert A. "A New Beginning: An Analysis of the IELU of Argentina with Suggestions for Growth." M.A. thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1974.

Growth of the Iglesia Evangelica Luterana Unida; case study from San Nicolas; work of Dr. Eduard Mueller; guidelines for future church growth.

Cobrda, Juan. "Aiming Toward Interdependence in Argentina." S.T.M. thesis, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1984. 255 pp.

"The LCA/DWME Thesis of ‘Dependence-Independence-Interdependence’" and the development of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Argentina.

Henneberger, James E. "Quo Vadis IELU? A Case Study of the Iglesia Evangelica Luterana Unida." M.A. thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1968. 401 pp.

Detailed history of the IELU and other Evangelical churches in Argentina; analysis in terms of church growth, both past and future. Location: ELCA Archives, Chicago

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